Grand Prix Rejects

The Passenger

Awful and shocking news to wake up to. Not unexpected, especially after Jules' father's statements a few days ago, but still very sad. I suppose there's a bit of solace to be found in the thought that Jules won't have to suffer any more or remain in a state worse than death, but I doubt that makes a...

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The most simple solution is: if you need to bring out the crane, make the SC escort it. I agree. In the 2003 season, we had a similar situation in the Brazilian GP. I don't remember what driver was, but he almost hit the crane in that occasion. That was Michael Schumacher, he almost went into the c...

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These cars would look great with the Durex livery Surtees(?) used to run in the 70s.

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I thought that part of the problem was that there had been private test sessions before the race itself took place - Kenny Bräck one of the first drivers to do so because he had already raced at that venue with the IRL - but there were no signs of the problems that would occur during the race. Bräc...

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Due to the banking of the Texas Motor Speedway and the speed of the cars -- which was higher than that of the IRL cars (which could run at Texas) at the time -- the drivers experienced massive sustained G-loads (5.5, which is almost double the amount most people can endure and comparable to the Gs e...

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Surprisingly enough, that first race was very exciting and had a lot of overtaking and close battling from start to finish, and I don't see why the sprint race (or the races next week) would be any different. If the GP tomorrow manages to be anywhere near this exciting it'll ahahaha I can't even fin...

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kostas22 wrote:
The Passenger wrote:Jessica Michibata's new hairstyle.

On the basis of that nomination, The Passenger.

But... but Jessica's old hairstyle was so much nicer! I can't possibly be the only one who doesn't particularly care for that sort of fringe.

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Jessica Michibata's new hairstyle. Also, Formula One. It's not often that I seriously contemplate not watching a race, but the way the Bahrain GP situation has been handled just makes me sick (Bernie in particular. I won't say what I think of him right now because this is supposed to be a family-fr...

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But wait, there's more! http://i.imgur.com/75p2sl.jpg Yes, that is Schumacher with... uh, angel wings for god knows what reason and then there's... Alonso as a werewolf? This forum does not have an appropriate emoticon for these pictures, so I'll borrow one from Something Awful: http://i.imgur.com/4...

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OOOHHHH CHINESE NINJA WARRIOOOORRRRR
WITH YOUR HEART SOOOOOO COOOOOOLLLLLLD
SUB-ZEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOO

(okay, for real, what in the bloody hell is this)

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Pastor Maldonado. Doesn't get much more rejectful than crashing out of the points on the last lap.

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Nuppiz wrote:If the British coverage is so bad as you're telling by both Sky and BBC, I consider us lucky to have MTV3 Max and a pair of decent commentators.

Calling Erkki Mustakari a decent commentator these days is a bit of a stretch, but I agree that our coverage really isn't too bad overall.

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I think "BRWND" is what I said when I attempted to wake up at 3:30 on Friday morning to watch FP1 after spending the night at a St. Patrick's Day themed student party (which was silly because we don't celebrate St. Patrick's Day). A picture somewhat relevant to this post: http://i.imgur.co...

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What?! That's how Japanese works. Foreign names are transcribed into katakana, a syllabary where one character normally represents one syllable -- Brundle, for example, is split into the characters BU-RA-N-DO-RU. (again, I wish this forum would support Japanese characters, it'd make this much easie...

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Yep, in 1993 both drove for Ligier. It gave quite the headache to Japanese commentators IIRC... There may have been some confusion, but their names are in fact pronounced differently in Japanese. (Brundle = Burandoru, Blundell = Buranderu -- I'd post the katakana, but the last time I tried that the...

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I'm pretty sure Rosset had a big shunt in one of the practice sessions at Hockenheim 1998 and was withdrawn from qualifying entirely.

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Fisichella does officially have a DNQ from the 2002 French GP, but that's because he had a massive accident in Saturday practice and had to sit out the rest of the weekend.

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Crud, how did I forget about Forti and Tarso Marques? Some F1 Rejects fan I am...

With that said, I'm glad the stewards enforced the 107% rule with the HRTs this time, they were looking downright dangerous out there during Q1.

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Ricardo Rosset failed to qualify his Tyrrell a few times in 1998.

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"Go home, Luis Perez-Sala"?

Doesn't quite have the same ring to it...

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So far Id nominate Kimi Raikonnen. This post reminds me that I'd like to nominate everyone who still somehow manages to misspell "Räikkönen" (or "Raikkonen" for those of you whose languages aren't metal enough for umlauts) after all these years for some sort of a Lifetime Achiev...

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My nomination: All forum users who have suggested Reject Of The Race before the race has begun. Which as a point of self-sacrifice, now includes me. Eh, I don't mind some early ROTR suggestions it if there's something really rejectful going on in the qualifying (or something completely ridiculous i...

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Tämä auto on roskaa! Hanki minulle Jäätelö ja sooda! Myös kuka kääntää tämä on hyvin surullinen "This car is shite, go get me an ice cream and a soda. Also, whoever translates this is very sad." (I'm not sad. I'm a translator* and translating stuff is what I do) *if I ever get my degree, ...

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http://i.imgur.com/tQwJR.jpg -Hello? -Hello, baby, it's me, your fantasy -What's your name? -Who cares? Just care about my body -What do you look like? -Hot, I look very hot I think this is the second time I make a reference to Village People's "Sex Over The Phone" in this thread, and tha...

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http://i.imgur.com/5Pacp.jpg Ah, the early 90s when it was still acceptable for a person in a Sonic the Hedgehog costume to wander around in public and touch people. Not only did he not get beaten up and/or arrested, but he'd even get paid for this. (By the way, that was some nice hotlinking there,...

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BaconLettuceNinja wrote:I never minded the low nose F310, but with the high nose it looks like it has a double chin...

Kind of looks like a goblin shark. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin_shark

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I remember bits and pieces from the 1990 season, including Martin Donnelly's horrible accident at Jerez, but the first full race I recall seeing was the 1991 San Marino Grand Prix where JJ Lehto finished third and Mika Häkkinen was fifth, and the Finnish commentators -- Matti Kyllönen and Keke Rosbe...

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And let's face it, Kimi will fail. You read it here first. Now, I like Kimi so I might be biased (not just because of Finnish patriotism, I actually enjoy watching him race), but I do know there is a chance Kimi will underachieve and/or stop hav... uh, giving a shite. However, couldn't we wait and ...

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Don't worry guys, F1 REJECT Taki Inoue has the scoop on this whole Kimi thing! m That says roughly "Raikkonen to Williams decided for next year! Discuss!" Now, as for why on earth Taki Inoue would be the first person in the world to report it as confirmed, I have no earthly clue. This was ...

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Erkki Mustakari, Finnish TV commentator and FINLAND'S LEADING F1 EXPERT. If I were playing a drinking game where you take a shot every time FINLAND'S LEADING F1 EXPERT says something that is completely wrong (apparently, DC and Michael were fighting for the lead when they had their crash in 1998, al...

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Linkin Park and Shaggy? Good lord, are we back in 2000 all of a sudden? And if we are, what the hell is Rick Astley doing there?

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For once I'm happy that I live in Finland. MTV3 shows ALL practices, ALL qualifyings and ALL races (this includes GP2 and GP3, even Porsche Supercup!) Live, uninterrupted AND with recaps of every broadcast a few hours afterwards at best. Granted, it is on MTV3 MAX, their paychannel, but since all d...

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Kimi sees himself in the mirror and realizes that the mullet might not have been such a great idea after all.

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The BBC, how dare they associate F1 with Limp Bizkit!? Oi! Limp Bizkit were good back in the day (10-12 years ago)! Better than those prats called Linkin Park. As much as Linkin Park sucks (and that is certainly an impressive amount of suck right there), at least they don't have Fred Durst. ontopic...

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Klon wrote:Why do you replace Karthikeyan and not Mr. Bland himself Vitantonio Liuzzi? Life is just not fun anymore.

Vitantonio Liuzzi is bland? Whaaat? But he has such funky music on his website and all! And he kinda looks like Dick Valentine of Electric Six in some pictures!

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JESUS CHRIST we almost had another Kyalami 1977 there.

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Well, looks like we finally found the real reason for Lewis' performance:

(for the uninitiated, Max Damage is the mascot character of Carmageddon. He got his own Twitter page now that the series is making a comeback)

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Max Mosley warns of PR disaster if Bahrain GP goes ahead Max basically reiterates what everyone who isn't completely insane (everyone except Bernie, basically) has been saying for a while now. Max also knows a thing or two about PR disasters (albeit ones that are rather amusing instead of utterly h...

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Lee Mc: "Why do you think you end up in front of the stewards so often?" Lewis: "I dunno.. maybe it's cuz I'm black... as Ali G would say" Lee: "..." Ali G, huh? I remember when that character was still somewhat relevant ten years ago... But yeah, looks like Lewis was ...

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